Chapter 38: Strike 3

An hour is not a short time, but it is only 90 minutes in the afterlife. Ninety minutes later, the Qin army was defeated, a great victory came, the danger of the destruction of the Chu country was no longer there, and he also had to be knighted and given the city, just like Zhuang Xin, who had admonished the king of Chu in 38 years, he led more than 100,000 soldiers from the east to collect more than a dozen cities by the riverside, and was named the king of Yangling by the king of Chu, and gave the land of Huaibei.

Although it is said that in the case of Chu, the fief of the non-royal family, and the city that was sealed with political and military merits was received by the third generation, but this is also the third generation; More importantly, the reputation of the Chu army among the nations and the fame of the Xiang clan will inevitably rise, which is what Xiang Yan really cares about. The last time the Qin army was defeated was in the Battle of Hewai nine years ago, after the defeat of the Qin army, they had to retreat into the Hangu Pass to defend and lick their wounds; And between Qin and Chu, except for the battle of the riverside that was outnumbered by the crowd thirty-eight years ago, Xiang Yan can't remember when the real main battle won. From the time he was born and even before he was born, all he heard was that the Chu army was defeated and the Qin army was victorious.

"Or you can tell your ancestors." Thinking of Qin Chu's defeats and victories in the past hundred years, and the loss of Ying's relocation of the capital, Xiang Yan couldn't help but moisten his eyes and choke with grief.

However, just when Xiang Yan was excited, the Qin army surrounded by shallow pockets was adjusting the array, and the array facing the middle army of the Chu army began to turn to both sides, and the Wu Chang and Tun Chang in the array did not care that this turn would aggravate the chaos of the Qin army, but they must form a solid defense line on the left and right sides to prevent the Chu army from attacking, otherwise hundreds of thousands of soldiers would die without a place to bury.

The shouts of killing and shouting made the already chaotic Qin army's central army even more chaotic, but in the slow horizontal attack of the left and right armies of the Chu army, the Qin army quickly formed a defensive queue against the flank, and some sharp soldiers stood at the forefront even more deservedly. The battle of the trapped beast is still ferocious, and the Chu army can still advance slowly before, but when the sharp soldiers hold beryllium in front, fight for their lives, and even fight back desperately at the cost of their lives, the momentum of the Chu army's horizontal attack was immediately blocked, and it could not advance again.

The left army of the Chu army, the Dongye Gu and Meng Hui of the Ludi division will be like thunder. Looking at the Lu division that had stopped advancing, Dongye couldn't wait to rush to the first line and hit the right sideways with all his might, so that the Qin army would be defeated, but he was not in the first line, even if he was in the first line, it would be useless, the two armies fought hard, and it was never one person who could change the fighting situation.

"Slipper, why don't you move in quickly?!" Higashino's solid sword has been drawn, and he looks like he wants to kill.

"Yudu Sima: The Qin people are in formation, and our army is not allowed to enter!" Huazi is the leader of the Lu army, with thousands of people under his command.

At this time, there were about 800,000 Ludi people and 400,000 men; In ancient times, the average age was only twenty or thirty years old, and only half of the Fu people were only 200,000, but 200,000 Fu people could not be fully distributed, and there must be people in the rear to make weapons and conscript grain, and two of the three were 14 or 50,000; Of the 140,000 or 50,000, excluding the soldiers of transportation and miscellaneous chores, the number of soldiers who could fight was less than 100,000; In the end, excluding the 60,000 Qi people who stayed behind, only 30,000 Lu troops went to Cai County to save Chengyang.

The 30,000 Lu army was still able to fight westward under the condition of grain and water transportation, but this was already the most powerful of the many Chu divisions, second only to the Yingdu division of more than 40,000 people. When arranging the formation, Xiang Yan put the Lu division and the Yue division behind the left and right armies, and it made sense not to resist the Qin army. Now, this has also become the reason why Ludi cannot advance.

"Why can't you enter?!" Higashino Gu shouted, his white beard fluttering, and the copper sword in his hand waved, as if he was about to stab Huazi to death with a sword. "Before this battle, didn't the old man ask you to select elite people to be listed first?"

"Yudu Sima," Huazi really wanted to cry without tears, looking at Higashino Gu's bronze sword, he longed to crash into the sword himself. "The elite soldiers of our army have been killed, and the ordinary apprentices are like a child and as strong as a woman, how can they enter? I can't get in!! ”

"You, you!!" Dongye Gu was furious, and the copper sword was not stabbed or swung, and he fell to the ground in anger in his last breath. As Sima of the capital of Lu State, how could Dong Yegu not know the current situation of Lu Shi. Lu Di heavy Confucianism, heavy Confucianism is naturally light business, light business is the people are poor, this is just that, another characteristic of heavy Confucianism is respect for the elderly, the result of respect for the elderly is that the old people need to eat meat every day. Meat is such a precious thing, but in the country of Lu, the old people eat meat every day, and ordinary people can only see meat during the New Year's Festival.

'Bian Que is famous all over the world. After Handan, when you hear the noble lady, you will take the doctor; After passing through Luoyang, hearing that the people of Zhou love the elderly, that is, the doctor of ear and eye paralysis; When I came to Xianyang, I heard that the Qin people loved children, that is, they were pediatric doctors. Changing with the custom. ’

Handan is the country of Zhao, and the noble lady of Zhao is not Zhao people who love women, but Zhao people who love Meiji and heavy people, and Zhao women are famous all over the world; Luoyang is the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Zhou people love the elderly, Zhou Lu is the same custom, so the old people eat meat, and the rest of the people eat vegetarian; Qin people love children (not little girls), in other words, the real Qin people only work hard, and the people who eat meat at home are strong men except for children, and the old people eat meat? That's dreaming.

Qin extinguishes the righteous canal, the ground is connected to the grassland, the meat of sheep and horses is common, although the commercial law 'heavy rent, so ten times its simplicity', but it is not difficult for elite people to eat meat, you must know that fighting in Qin has become a kind of business, how to worship without meat? The Central Plains is densely populated, so naturally grazing is not allowed, and the meat eaten by ordinary people is only dog meat. It's just that there are many people and the land is poor, how many taels of meat can grow on a dog that eats? The common people eat dogs just because they smell meat. Whoever wants to be able to eat dog meat every day will be able to be as brave as Fan Xu, and the difference between the three armies eating vegetarian meat will be known by looking at Fan Xu.

In addition to the difference in diet, after the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the Qin State only focused on farming and warfare, and the elite soldiers in the army were not only tall and strong, but also skilled in the art of fighting. The Lu pawn, who has never had a few times in his life, was still able to attack horizontally at first, but when the Qin army's sharp soldiers and armor soldiers formed an array and fought to the death, the difference between the two soldiers was immediately reflected.

How can a vegetarian beat a meat-eater? How can those who read poetry and books and learn the pseudo-six arts be able to fight hard and kill people? The Qin army waved his beryllium commander, and the first row of Lu pawns shattered their shields and killed them instantly; Entering, the tall and tall Ruishi kicked him, and the front row of Lu pawns fell and the back row also fell, and the whole fell into a gourd string. If it weren't for the Qin army's single-minded defense at this time, the Lu division array would have been chaotic under the counterattack.

'The body is like a child, and the strength is like a woman'. This is by no means a prevarication by the slippery man, the Qin knights need to be more than seven feet five inches (1.73cm) tall, too short to jump on the horse. However, it should not be too tall, and the most important thing for a cavalry without a stirrup saddle is physical balance, not being tall and strong. But Ruishi is different, the selection of Ruishi is only to break the formation, seven feet five inches is considered short, the height is generally more than seven feet six inches (175cm), the tall ones are nearly seven feet eight inches (180cm), and a few are even eight feet tall (184cm)

Although the 180-centimeter-tall terracotta warriors and horses seem to be exaggerated in later generations, as the emperor's selection of burial personnel, it is not necessarily false, but the height of ordinary Qin people should be reduced by 10 centimeters.

The Qin people can select tall pawns, and of course the Lu people can also select them, but the Qin State has a huge population of 15 million at this time, and the population of the Lu State is only 800,000, how can the tall pawns selected among the 800,000 be compared to the Qin army? In the end, the tall soldiers in the front row of the Lu division were only seven feet three inches and seven feet five inches, and when the first row died in battle, some of the soldiers in the back row did not even have seven feet (161cm). 161 vegetarians vs. 184 meat-eating, hard-reading poetry and books, killing people for business, what else can they do except hanging?

The Lu division couldn't attack at all, and because the Lu division couldn't attack horizontally, the rest of the divisions couldn't advance. Higashino knew the roots, and he had to throw his sword to the ground in shame. Of course, he did not forget his duty as a general, and quickly sent someone to report to Xiang Yan.

"Master Lu is not allowed to enter? How so?! Xiang Yan, like Dong Ye Gu, was taken aback by Lu Shi's return.

"General, the strong men of our army are all dead, and the rest are ...... with the Qin people" The person who gave the order was Dongye Gu's personal follower Dongye Ge, as a Lu person, he really didn't want to relay Huazi's Beilu words, but Xiang Yanzheng stared at him with burning eyes, and he had to say: "...... Compared with the Qin army's sharp soldiers, the remaining pawns are still small in shape and as strong as women, and they are no longer allowed to enter. ”

"......" After Dong Yege finished speaking, Xiang Yan opened his mouth, and he forgot to breathe. Before Higashino Gu returned, he had thought of countless reasons for not entering, but he never expected it to be this.

"Why did General Higashino say this?" Peng Zong's reaction was not as violent as Xiang Yan's, but he was blamed and dissatisfied. "The soldiers of my Chinese army can still break through Qin Ruishi and hit his crossbow array, what is the use of body shape and strength? The two armies are fighting, only morale! At this time, the Qin army was ambushed, and the left and right armies would not hesitate to attack it at the cost of life and death. ”

"Jun Sima, Jun Sima ......" was accused of this, Dongye Ge saluted again and again, and he had to shout injustice: "The blow of the Chinese army is the king of the sanitation palace armor, and the sanitation palace armor is the person selected by my Chu State, how can I compare with my reckless pawn?" ”

"You" Peng Zong was also angry, and was reminded by Dongye Geyi, so he naturally remembered that sanitation and Gongjia were also the people who were selected. Among the divisions, even the king pawn can't compete with the sanitation palace armor, how can the county pawn compare? How can the weakest Lu pawn among the county pawns be compared?

"How's the pawn of the land?" Peng Zong argued for the sake of argument and mentioned the Yue people of the right army. "Yue was born short, but he is not afraid of life and death, and he also strikes vigorously, why is your Lu Shi not as good as Yue Ren?"

"Report" Peng Zongzheng wanted to motivate Lu Shi with a short pawn, and he didn't want to interrupt him with an urgent report. The person who came stepped forward and said: "General, military Sima, the Qin people are in a formation of sharp soldiers as a defense, and our army is not allowed to enter!" ”

"Your army is not allowed to enter?! Your army is not allowed to enter?! Peng Zong pointed to the military officials sent by Yangxu, and smiled angrily: "You can know how much effort the general and I spent in order to ambush the Qin army, and how many soldiers were killed and wounded by the Chinese army!" You wait, you wait for the return not to enter, you can comfort their heroic spirits?! Can we damage our army's strategy and lead to defeat?! ”

The more Peng Zong spoke, the more anxious and angry he became, and with a 'choking' sound, he drew his sword and was about to behead the person who reported the news. I don't want a hand to reach over and hold him down. "This is because our army is invincible to the Qin people, what is the use of you killing him?" Xiang Yan, who calmed down, sighed while questioning. "For the sake of the present, let it be attacked with arrows and bullets of fire. Come! Quick question: Can trebuchets shoot? ”